“Stop trying to be friends with people because of their achievements ”

Listen dude, I’ve become friends with some amazing people PURELY from admiring their achievements in the first place, so. That ain’t it. Friendships start with mutual support, rule #1.

If I may, I saw someone here on da Twitters calling someone out for being a clout chaser and I thought... yeah maybe, but why are we so scared to tell people what we admire about them? It’s not *always* disingenuous. Some people really mean what they say and are true homies.

It’s like, opening up that part of us, the vulnerable, wincing, mewling snotball of a human core, is so dangerous to us because it reveals you both admire someone and desire their talent, thereby saying you don’t already have it. It’s hard and brave to praise someone else.

I am going to make more concerted efforts to do this, to really find something I appreciate in a person, that their efforts matter, because it is tough to be human, and sometimes we need a little more gas in the tank.

Cherish your friendships, is all I’m sayin. Hold onto good people. Live in their backpack. Be a tiny baby kangaroo. Grow old. Move to Australia.

Goodnight.